Hedegaard lashes out following failed assassination attemptThe outspoken critic of Islam launches an attack on the country's media and politicians in his first statement since last week's attack

Lars Hedegaard has criticised the country's politicians and media following the failed attempt on his life last week.

In a statement published on the Danish Free Press Society's online magazine, Sappho, on Saturday, he directly condemned national newspaper Politiken and the country's political parties for doing too little against what he views as problematic immigration and attacks on the freedom of speech.

"Politiken's editor-in-chief Bo Lidegaard may well say he's happy to hear I'm alive," Hedegaard wrote. "But he was also quick to explain how much of a miserable creep I am, due to my 'nonsensical, hateful and degrading statements about Muslims in Denmark'."